762. Sales DON’T Have to Slow Down In The Summer. Here’s The Playbook
The Product Boss with Jacqueline Snyder
Jacqueline Snyder
4.8 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Are slower sales making you question everything you've built? In this episode, I talk about why June and July are some of the toughest months for product-based businesses and why that doesn't mean your business is broken. I share the buying patterns behind seasonal slowdowns, why successful brands create demand instead of waiting for customers to start shopping again, and the strategies you can use to create momentum even during quieter months. Get ready to stop reacting to slow seasons and start using them to build a stronger, more profitable business.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
00:00 Why are your product sales slowing down this summer?
02:30 The "J-month" pattern every product business owner should understand.
05:45 What Amazon Prime Day teaches you about creating demand during slow seasons.
08:00 How can a Christmas in July promotion boost summer sales?
09:45 Why bundles often outperform discounts alone.
11:00 Ways to reconnect with past customers and generate new sales.
13:15 Why slow months are the best time to prepare for a successful Q4.
14:45 Which strategy should you implement before Monday?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | For the entrepreneur watching your June sales drop and quietly asking yourself if you're the problem, |
| 0:07.1 | I see you. I've been you. And I want you to hear something before we even start this episode. |
| 0:12.8 | You're not the problem. June is the problem. July is going to be a similar problem. |
| 0:19.0 | January is the same problem in a different season, |
| 0:22.2 | because there is a pattern that product businesses have that nobody's really teaching about. |
| 0:28.1 | And once you see it, you cannot unsee it. And you can finally stop blaming yourself for something |
| 0:32.4 | that is structural, predictable, and fixable. Today's episode is for the entrepreneur whose candle sales just dropped or |
| 0:40.1 | whose Etsy shop is quieter or whose Shopify dashboard is showing 20 to 40% less than May. |
| 0:46.9 | So the jewelry orders if they're not coming in or whose CPG retailer stopped reordering. |
| 0:52.9 | Maybe your wholesale buyer stopped emailing you back. |
| 0:55.0 | You guys are like, oh my God, Jacqueline, really? |
| 0:57.1 | But listen, the point is, is if you feel like your sales have fallen off the cliff right around |
| 1:02.6 | Memorial Day to Labor Day, you're not alone. |
| 1:06.3 | And this episode is for you. |
| 1:07.5 | And by the end of it, you are going to understand exactly why this is happening. |
| 1:12.6 | And the three moves that seven figure product based business owners are making right now and that |
| 1:17.0 | you can make too. Let's get into it. Hi, I'm Jacqueline Snyder and this is the product boss |
| 1:23.5 | podcast. I've helped launch and grow thousands of product-based businesses, even one of my own. |
| 1:28.5 | And over the last 20 years, I've seen behind the scenes of businesses just like yours. |
| 1:33.0 | Whether they are makers, manufacturers, artists, or food and beverage businesses, I have spent |
| 1:37.7 | so many hours studying it all. I've discovered what makes them successful, what mistakes they |
| 1:42.0 | could have avoided. How did they turn their ideas |
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